Pin vs Stump - What's the difference?
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A small device, made (usually) of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
* Milton
A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
(in plural'' pins ; ''informal ) A leg.
(electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
(US) A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
(chess) A scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to attack.
(curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
* Shakespeare
(dated) A mood, a state of being.
* Cowper
One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
(medicine, obsolete) caligo
A thing of small value; a trifle.
* Spectator
A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
(engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
The tenon of a dovetail joint.
(often followed by a preposition such as'' to''' ''or'' ' on ) To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
(chess, usually, in the passive) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
(wrestling) To pin down (someone).
To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
(computing, GUI) To attach (an icon, application, etc.) to another item.
The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
(politics) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
(figurative) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
*1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .
*:Paul Muniment had taken hold of Hyacinth, and said, 'I'll trouble you to stay, you little desperado. I'll be blowed if I ever expected to see you on the stump !'
(cricket) One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.
(drawing) An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
(slang, humorous) A leg.
A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key.
A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
to stop, confuse, or puzzle
to baffle; to be unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
to campaign
(transitive, US, colloquial) to travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes
(transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) to get a batsman out stumped
(cricket) to bowl down the stumps of (a wicket)
* Tennyson
to walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge
As nouns the difference between pin and stump
is that pin is a small device, made (usually) of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening while stump is the remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.As verbs the difference between pin and stump
is that pin is (often followed by a preposition such as'' to''' ''or'' ' on ) to fasten or attach (something) with a pin while stump is to stop, confuse, or puzzle.pin
English
(wikipedia pin)Noun
(en noun)- With pins of adamant / And chains they made all fast.
- Pull the pin out of the grenade before throwing it at the enemy.
- I'm not so good on my pins these days.
- The UK standard connector for domestic mains electricity has three pins .
- The shot landed right on the pin .
- the very pin of his heart cleft
- a merry pin
- (Shakespeare)
- He did not care a pin for her.
Synonyms
* (small nail) nail, tack * (cylinder of wood or metal) peg * (games) skittle * (jewellery fastened with a pin) brooch * (accessory) badgeHyponyms
* (jewellery fastened with a pin) breastpin * (chess) absolute pin, relative pin, partial pinDerived terms
* belaying pin * breastpin * clothespin / clothes pin * drawing pin * gudgeon pin * on a pin * on pins and needles * pincushion * pinhead * pinhole * pin money * pinner * pinprick * pins and needles * pintle * pin-up, pinup * rolling pin * safety pinSee also
* needleVerb
- to pin a window to the Taskbar
Derived terms
* pin down * pin in * pin on * pin the tail on the donkey * pin up * underpinstump
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia stump)- to stir one's stumps
Derived terms
* stumps * pull up stumps * on the stump * take the stumpVerb
(en verb)- ''This last question has me stumped .
- He’s been stumping for that reform for months.
- A herd of boys with clamour bowled, / And stumped the wicket.